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>>5680493it was extremely rich though especially for the time. byzantines maintained its prosperity but the arabs totally rekt north african civilization by subordinating it to islam and destroying its major ancient cities.

Not many decent books on this conflict, pic related is one of the better ones. It falls into the trap of listing tanks and planes and bombs and artillery and everything else, so some. It’s are Boringly,

>>5680961Again, pretty much everything we know about Assyrian military capabilities stems from archeological, not written sources. What we have is mostly reconstructed from reliefs on buildings. Some of them depict armored infantry, such as this one. But actually getting a coherent picture as to how a military operated is difficult enough with written primary sources, and when all you have to work with are pictures, very probably ancient propaganda pictures; you're left with more guesswork than firm scholarship.

All of human advancement stemmed from this one continent, even the egyptians count as they are not really native to Africa they migrated there. One fucking continent determined everything really makes you think doesnt it?

>>5679780you already answered it buddy. hes an anarchist icon>>5679882hes the guy who killed president mckinley. i dont know this because i care, its because i used to live down the street from where he got shot